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Author(s): Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Poetry | New Releases | Australian/Aotearoa
Our lucent teeth spark the rainbow dark.
Here, we do not use words like love.
Instead, we speak with hands that hold as shoulders tussle
the roughhouse rougher.
In the absence of daylight,
we are just two young men,
silent save for giggle and shoe scuff-
we do not rouse suspicion when touching.
from 'Night Orchids'
In this volume, Scott-Patrick Mitchell propels us into the seething mess of the methamphetamine crisis in Australia today. These poems roil and scratch, exploring the precarious life of addiction and its sleep deprivation. From an unsteady and unsavoury life, we are released into the joy of a recovery made through sheer hard work.
Even in the disintegration, the poet points us towards love and carries tenderness every day in memory. Scott-Patrick Mitchell's decades of spoken- word practice has enabled a fine tuning on the page when, for so many readers, we enter into an alien zone of unknowing.
Shortlisted in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2023 and the Best Book category in the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 2023.
May 2024
Product Information
Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a WA-based non-binary poet who is a guest on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land. SPM's work appears in Contemporary Australian Poetry, The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, Solid Air, Stories of Perth and Going Postal. A seasoned performance poet, Mitchell has toured Australia with works that have fused language and minimal baroque. A focus for the poet is in building community through their work with Perth Poetry Festival and WA Poets Inc's Emerging Writers Program. They live with two black cats, Beowulf and Bones.
General Fields
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- : Upswell Publishing
- : Upswell Publishing
- : 0.14
- : 01 January 2022
- : 1 Centimeters X 14.8 Centimeters X 16.4 Centimeters
- : 01 May 2024
- : books
Special Fields
- : 110
- : Paperback
- : Scott-Patrick Mitchell